Tonight we welcome a new member into our fold, rainshadow, with whom I've done some collaboration on songs. She writes lyrics and speaks or sings them and she's looking for folks to collaborate with her on some tunes. Anyway, to welcome her I wrote this song which was inspired by something Jan said in the chat room. Hope you like it.

Les

Quote:

The Prayer Machine Broke Down

"Lord why have you forsaken me?"
Said Jesus on the cross
Nails in his hands and gouged in his side
They say the lord was with him

I faced my own crucifixion
A time when I was all alone
No prayer did help me
No word from God came forth

For God he tests you eternally
To see the depth of your faith
Through Hell you'll go and back again
Just to prove your love of Him

I will not play this game of His
No longer shall I accept torture
It's said he will not test you
Beyond your ability to withstand

If that is true, then I must be steel
For the evil that struck me
Was beyond what I could stand
More pain than I could take

The prayer machine broke down
The prayer machine broke down
The prayer machine broke down

I sung this to a song i don't have the rights to, but would love to share it, so if anyone want to hear it then let me know and i'll send it privately, it's one of those 'for promo purposes only' things.

CHASING DEMONS

chasing demons
spiral seeming
path with no end
followed it in
found begin
their conception
their birth
where they appeared first
borne of fears and hurts

to understand
why they haunt my land
underside creeping
beneath true seeing
leaking through
all I do
they shadow step
the dark instead
of facing light
the revealing shine
might melt their essence
dissolve their presence

so shrinking away
they leave by day
but stubbornly stay
at night they play
inside or out
darkness of doubts
their landscape of pain
past to present again
memories are sent
negative bent
blanket decent
a smothering cover
cowering under
i hide

Kudos to Dan and rainshadow for their awesome lyrics. So you thought this would be lyrics only? Surprise! Here is a recording of Christian Man performed by myself with Howard doing keyboard on his G2 near the close of the EM09 festival. Woohoo! What a blast it was, and what an honor to be one of many who closed out the festival! Enjoy...

I'm really enjoying this 'un! one thing, though. In my experience, anyone who's not Bob Dylan - and sometimes even he - will probably need to follow up the all-important brainstorming phase, where one tries to spew out (and I mean this in the nicest way possible, albeit slightly jealously, as I seem to have ruined my lyric writing muscle) as much text as possible, with the heartbreak of "killing your babies." By that, I mean the phase where you decide which lines/verses to bin and which to leave in. When I was able to write, back in the paleolithic areas, I sometimes chucked out the best lines or couplets, if they didn't help the song. Nowasays, of course, I immediatly start editing, so that hardly anything gets written, and what little DOES get written gets binned straight away... _________________Where there are too many policemen, there is no liberty. Where there are too many soldiers, there is no peace. Where there are too many lawyers, there is no justice.
Lin Yutang (1895-1976)

Yes Oskar, my lyrics are definitely "spewed out", but I don't think I'll change them. If you can do something better with them, I welcome your edits and modifications. I have more, perhaps I'll post those as well.

edit? what is that?
freeflowed rant
no room for recant
it is what it is
so let it spin
back to begin
i strive
to strike
timeless lights
into hearts of night
and speak right
truely designed
to bind
and remind
to let go to find
the inner kind
of purpose
no purchase
just bits
slid into place
its all it takes

Oh, another, probably more positive way of describing "killing your babies" might be to call it "cherry-picling." I know that Dylan does that on occasion - he'll write 2o verses and use the ones that he likes best at that moment, then maybe he'll chuck (ahah, I knew you'd like that word! ) in a few of the ones he didn't use on the record, either in addition to, or in stead of, the ones from the record. Or he might rewrite a few lines. What I'm getting at is, it's probably a good thing not to see ones lyrics as carved in stone! And I'm a fine one to talk, not having written a lyric for nigh on twenty years..._________________Where there are too many policemen, there is no liberty. Where there are too many soldiers, there is no peace. Where there are too many lawyers, there is no justice.
Lin Yutang (1895-1976)

Here is a pdf file that I created some time ago. It contain an introduction and the lyrics for my Paranoid Schizophrenia album. The album tells much of the story of the abuse that I received in 1999/2000 which led to a schizophrenic breakdown, the weapon story, and finally my recovery from madness. I released an album containing most of the songs on OCP's netlabel, EdP.

Point taken, Oskar. I should not see those lyrics as final, but will feel free to edit them later.

Les

Les, I would not presume to tell you what to do, in fact I'd rather you look at Danno Gee Ray's comment: "All just points of departure." Spot on! _________________Where there are too many policemen, there is no liberty. Where there are too many soldiers, there is no peace. Where there are too many lawyers, there is no justice.
Lin Yutang (1895-1976)

Nice lyrics, Les! May I borrow the phrase prayer machine? I like the phrase Jehovah the abuser, too.

Sure, well it's Jan's phrase but I'm quite sure he wouldn't mind. Although it may seem like sacrilege, Jehovah the abuser seems fitting to me in the context of Job. When we look at the atrocities of God as told in the Bible, the phrase seems appropriate.

By that, I mean the phase where you decide which lines/verses to bin and which to leave in.

the last time I wrote a text I had a couple of lines, but ended up with just

Code:

I forgot the words

The other lines didn't work ... I've been using this text for a couple of radio sessions now

Inventor wrote:

well it's Jan's phrase

And that same text now runs through the prayer machine from time to time. The prayer machine is just a couple of delay loops BTW with pitch change & stuff._________________Jan
(yawning shifts perceived pitch, making things more interesting)

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